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Just tried setting up sky on a friends android and run into the new Yahoo! mess trying to find IMAP details. -They seem somewhat reticent to publish them, and people are having problems with the published SMTP. So…

It’s pretty easy to find the server addresses, imap.sky.com resolves (and redirects) nicely but SMTP doesn’t. I’ll save the gory details; smtp.tools.sky.com is where we’re poking. I’m also using imap.tools.sky.com for when the original cname fails.

pro-tip: lots of mail clients don’t use the [email protected]_domain.com when they try and probe. Also, Thunderbird’s account setup menu makes it looks like it auto-prefixes the imap/pop part of the hostname; it doesn’t.